craft + activism = craftivism.

Ok, I’ll admit it. I have no idea what “craftism” is. I do, however, know what “craftivism” is. The word “craftivism” came into my life by way of a conversation about “craft” and “activism,” seeing the similarity and opposition in these words as culturally defined, I started using a “craft activism” hybrid. A friend of [...]

I first started really thinking about knitting and its relation to community and theory when I was in graduate school at Goldsmiths College and therefore involved with the Centre for Community and Urban Research, headed by Michael Keith. During that year I fell in love with ethnography and Walter Benjamin and felt literally as though [...]

1. The results of some grade school career aptitude test 2. Photo proving that I still have this shirt I bought in 1994 at Yoyo a Gogo I was clearing out my summer clothes and pulling out the winter ones the other day when I found this old Crayon shirt. Putting on the t-shirt, it [...]

I have this photo of Bikini Kill on my desktop right now. It’s been a nice reminder back to the days of singing along to 7″s up in my room, when it seemed like music could really, honestly change the world. Lately, as part of talking about the book, I’ve been mentioning more and more [...]

This Christmas card, from Fine Cell Work is by far, my favorite Christmas card this year. Maybe even of all time. I like the humanity it brings to what is normally thought as inhumane or deviant. I like that it highlights a part of our communities that might have been forgotten about, people who might [...]